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Pachydermata (meaning 'thick skin', from the Greek παχύς, pachys, 'thick', and δέρμα, derma, 'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it is polyphyletic, the order is no longer in use, [when?] but it is important in the history ...
Pachyderma, or pachydermia, is the thickening of skin like that of a pachyderm (a tough-skinned animal such as an elephant, rhinoceros, tapir or hippopotamus). [1] It occurs in the condition pachydermoperiostosis, an autosomal genetic disorder. [2] It can also occur in acromegaly, elephantiasis, and podoconiosis. [3]
Elephant cognition is animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of between 11-13 pounds, an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a ...
Pachyderm may refer to: Any of the Pachydermata, an obsolete 19th-century taxonomic order of mammals that included elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs and hippopotami. Pachyderm Studios, a recording studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Pachyderma, a skin condition. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Pachycephalosaurus (/ ˌpækɪˌsɛfələˈsɔːrəs /; [2] meaning "thick-headed lizard", from Greek pachys-/παχύς- "thickness", kephalon/κεφαλή "head" and sauros/σαῦρος "lizard") [3] is a genus of pachycephalosaurid ornithischian dinosaur. The type species, P. wyomingensis, is the only known species, but some researchers ...
The rock hyrax (/ ˈhaɪ.ræks /; Procavia capensis), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (from some [3] interpretations of a word used in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South Africa as the dassie (IPA: [dasiː]; Afrikaans: klipdassie ...
Malassezia pachydermatis is a bottle-shaped, [2] non-lipid dependent lipophilic yeast in the genus Malassezia. [5] Colonies are cream or yellowish in colour, smooth to wrinkled and convex with a margin possessing a slightly lobed appearance. [5][8] Cells are ovoidal in shape and range in size from 3.0–6.5 x 2.5 μm. [5]
Borneo elephant. The Borneo elephant, also called the Bornean elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its origin remains the subject of debate. A definitive subspecific classification as Elephas maximus borneensis awaits a detailed ...